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Rick Osborne writes rick osborne dot org, a personal blog at rickosborne.org about programming and data. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Translate MySQL to MongoDB MapReduce [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
9HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Rick Osborne's posts and PDF on migrating from SQL to MongoDB MapReduce, including a translation infographic. HN readers link them while discussing how to translate SQL queries into Mongo.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The personal home page for Rick Osborne: teacher, coder, runner, writer.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Translate MySQL to MongoDB MapReduce [pdf]
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-03-04
  2. InfoGraphic: Migrating from SQL to MapReduce with MongoDB
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Thanks @gry, and here is the direct link to the PDF: http://rickosborne.org/download/SQL-to-MongoDB.pdf

    Comment linking /download/SQL-to-MongoDB.pdf

    on “Show HN: SQL to Mongo Query Translator”
  2. Submitted Migrating from SQL to MapReduce with MongoDB as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  3. gry · 2012-12-12Recommends
    I've also found this diagram incredibly helpful translating from a SQL to map/reduce world. http://rickosborne.org/blog/2010/02/infographic-migrating-fr...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/02/infographic-migrating-from-sql-to-mapreduce-with-mongodb/

    on “Show HN: SQL to Mongo Query Translator”
  4. Submitted Translate MySQL to MongoDB MapReduce [pdf] as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. The actual content (since the webpage is broken): http://rickosborne.org/download/SQL-to-MongoDB.pdf

    Comment linking /download/SQL-to-MongoDB.pdf

    on “Migrating from SQL to MapReduce with MongoDB”
  6. Submitted Automatically mapping SQL to MongoDB map/reduce (using ColdFusion and Derby) as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. They did - that's actually what this PDF is showing, but the submission links directly to the PDF rather than the article. Here's the original post: http://rickosborne.org/blog/index.php/2010/02/19/yes-virgini... I've submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166876

    Comment linking /blog/index.php/2010/02/19/yes-virginia-thats-automated-sql-to-mongodb-mapreduce/

    on “Translate MySQL to MongoDB MapReduce [pdf]”
  8. Submitted N-gram prediction project as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted InfoGraphic: Migrating from SQL to MapReduce with MongoDB as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Performance in the Trenches as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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